Mirror: Duncan Bannatyne on the Bedroom Tax
I totally respect the idea that a wealthy and prominent figure who is in the public eye for being a true hard working citizen can see what the government is doing to the persons requiring the support of the state as being totally unfair and questioningly immoral.
I read the whole thing and indeed the comments attached to it, and it is clear that not only the persons that ARE going to be affected are prepared to take action, but also other hard working citizens are prepared to speak out against these unfair rulings.
The Bedroom Tax being imposed on us when there are no offers to assist us into more suitable accomodations, Job Seeker sanctions and retroactivly changing laws to avoid court decisions and keep unjustly sanctioned persons from recieving the money now owed to them reeks to me of only one thing... That our government has became to ignorant of the facts that are faced on the real streets of this country and would rather hide in their many homes, leeching off of the tax payers by making immoral claims for expeditures and dishing out tax BREAKS to the severely wealthy thereby making LESS money available to the treasurys pot to be able to help support the people that voted you in on the first place.
We have faced social cuts to all services, constant restructuring of all social security systems, to make claims now we need to phone in to someone then take the forms they fill in to the jobcentre to get that signed, used to all get done at the job centre / benefit centres before.
Now all we get ( we being long term unemployed people in my case ) is constant harrasment, with the wording of sanctions being handed around every time you sign on. Even when we have done everything they reqest of you, you STILL get interrogated.
My story is a long one, and I may even just even open it all uo and post it up on a blog soon, but it has been proven to me that the government doesnt care a single jot about the persons in our society UNLESS they are mega rich and highly paid, and most of these people have their own ways of protection their own hard earned cash from the claws of the tax man.
We are being victimised across the whole of the UK by a treacherous governement that has not held up on its promise to create a Big Society, after all, what is a society that does not respond to the simple basic care of persons who are unable to work because there are not enough jobs out there to go around ! A true people government would NOT allow a UK serving soldier of 12 years in good standing to be immorally sanction from receiving benefits that I am sure most people would happily say that he EARNED by putting his life on the line out of a sense of DUTY to his country of birth!
The backlash that most people can see coming is going to be extremely harsh, and to think that it could have all been avoided by just looking at the facts and realising that this is moraly wrong to be put into motion. We as a people have the right to be fairly governed, and if we cant get that right to be fairly governed, than as a people, we have a right and a duty to demand it!
To fellow scotsman Mr Duncan Bannatyne, I wish to personally thank you for your comment on how you see this, it is with the good hard working people like yourself that the people who will be affected know that they have to do something to get the changes made to be fair for all persons involved.
Thank you Sir !
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